Editorial: Knowledge-based digital media processing

The health care system is increasingly complex and specialized, but it presents the actors involved with the challenge of working together in interprofessional teams. One way to meet this challenge is through interprofessional training approaches, where representatives of different professions learn together with learners of other professions. This article contributes to the question of how interprofessional teaching in health care education can be designed with a low threshold by using digital media. We focus on learning with digital learning platforms and learning with videos. Based on existing empirical findings, these approaches are discussed in terms of their potential and limitations for interprofessional teaching. In particular, we examine how these approaches influence the core competence domains of interprofessional collaborative practice. Digital collaborative learning platforms are suitable for teaching interprofessional competences, since they enable social and professional exchange among learners of different professions. Videos are suitable for imparting medical declarative and procedural knowledge. Based on these considerations, the use of videos in combination with interaction possibilities is presented as a didactic approach that can combine the aspect of knowledge transfer with the possibility of interprofessional computer-based collaboration.

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A system-on-a-chip for real-time software digital media processing

Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II Electronics) ◽

10.1002/ecjb.20288 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 89 (8) ◽

pp. 51-59

Author(s):

Keiji Kojima ◽

Kiyokazu Nishioka ◽

Atsuo Kawaguchi ◽

Koji Hosogi ◽

Norihisa Komoda

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Digital Media ◽

Media Processing ◽

System On A Chip

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Mapping the Digital Middle East

Digital Middle East ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190859329.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-32

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Digital Media ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Digital Culture ◽

Mena Region ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Arab Uprisings ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Knowledge Based Economy ◽

Information And Communication

Over the past decade or so, the digital landscape in the Middle East has changed dramatically. Technological adoption, advanced IT infrastructures, communication changes and enhanced connectivity have slowly but surely impacted the region. While much has been written about the role digital media played since the 2011 Arab uprisings, less attention has been paid to the larger digital transformations the MENA region has been experiencing and the implications of these technology-enabled transformations. This chapter focuses on the broader nature of these information and communication changes. It offers critical reflection on how the evolving communication environment and fast changing digital technologies are affecting the region and transforming practices, paying particular attention to the cultural, economic, and political implications of these ongoing changes. The chapter pays particular attention to both the opportunities and challenges the adoption of digital technologies holds for a Middle East that is aspiring to transition toward a knowledge-based economy. It shed light on significant developments and evolving dynamics that characterize the digital Middle East, but also reveals disjunctions and maps out discordances that are inherent to this emerging digital culture.

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